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-[todo]
+New features in 1.5
+
+* Development hosted at savannah.gnu.org
+
+* Tablature support.
+
+* Many speedups, many slowdowns.
+
+* More extensibility.
+
+* Figured bass support.
+
+* Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output
+now.
+
+* Completely rewritten grace note support.
+
+* Improved accidental handling and formatting.
+
+* Better spacing: both globally and locally. It includes subtle
+details like optical stem spacing.
+
+* More ancient notation support: mensural ligatures,
+more shapes.
+
+* Support for automatically determining and engraving ambitus (pitch
+range) of voices.
+
+* Piano notation: bracket pedals, directed arpeggios, arpeggio
+brackets.
+
+* Some music entry optimizations.
+
+* Font completely revised and improved.
+
+* Completely rewritten midi input support.
+
+* Manual thoroughly revised.
+
+* Many bugfixes.